Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-17

qualify her to build her own home and
maintain 1t IN Il happiness that requires
no augmentation from any Of our rougheI
eek. That young man or young woman
can by the right literary and moral i'm.
provement of the spare ten minutes here
or there in every day, rise head ard shoul.
ders in prosperity, and character, and in.
fuence above the loungerN who read moth.
ing or read that which bedwarfs. See all
the forests Of good American literature
dripping with honey. Why pick up the
honey combs that have in them
THE FIERY BEES,
which will sting you with an eternal
poison while you taste it? One book may
for you or he decide everything for this
world or the next. It was a turning point
with me when in Wynkoop's bookstore,
Syracuse, one day, l picked up a book
called The Beauties of Ruskin." II
was only book of extracts, but it was
all pure honey, and was not satisfied un.
til had purchased all his works, at the
time expensive beyond an easy capacity
to own them, and what heaven ! went
through in reading his Seven Lamps Of
Architecture" and his Stones of Ven.
ice," it is impossible for me to describe,
except by saying that it gave me rap
ture for good books, and an everlasting
disgust for decrepit or immoral books that
will last me while my immortal soul
lasts. All around the church and the
world to-day there ale busy hives OF
intelligence occupied by authors and au-
theses from whose pens drip o distillation
which Is the very nectar of heaven, and
why will You thrust your rod of inquisi-
tiveneSS into the deathful saccharine OF
perdition?
Stimulating liquids also come into the
category OF temptations delicious but
deathlul. You say: II cannot bear the
taste of Intoxicating liquor, and how any
man can like 1t Is to me an amaZement"
Well then, 1t Is no credit to you that you
do not take it. Do not brag about your
total abstinence, because it is not from any
principle that you reject alcoholism, but
for the same reason that you reject certain
styles OF food-yOu simply don't like the
taste Of them. But multitudes of people
have natural fondness for all kinds OF
intoxicants. They like it so much
that it makes them smack their lips to look
at it. They are dyspeptic, and they take
1t to aid digestion, or they are ANNOYED by
insomnia, and they take it to produce
sleep, or
THEY ARE TROUBLED,
and they take it to make them oblivious,
or they feel good, and they must celebrate
their hilarity. They begin with mipt
lulep sucked through two straws on the
Long Branch piazza and end in the ditch,
taking from jug liquid half kerosene
and half whisky. They not only like it,
but 1t is an all consuming passion of body,
mind and soul, and after a while have il
they will, though one wine glass of it
should cost the temporal and eternal de-
strnction of themselves, and all their FAM
lilies, and the whole hum II race. They
would say: II am sorry it is going to cost
me, aud my family, and all the worlds
population so very much, but here it goes
to my lips, AMI now let it roll over my
parched tongue and down my heated
throat, the sweetest, the most in
spring, the most rapturous thing
that ever thrilled mortal To
cure the habit before it comes to
ITS last stages, various plans were tried in
| olden times. This plan was recommended
i'll the books: When man wanted TO re-
form he put shot or ballets into the cup or
| glass OF strong drink-one additional shot
or bullet each day, that displaced 80 much
liquor. Bullet after bullet added day by
day, of course the liquor became less and
less until the bullets would entirely fill
up the glass and there was no room for the
| liquid, and by that time it was said the in
ebrlate would be cured. Whether any one
ever was cured in that way | know not,
but by long experiment it is found that
the only way is to stop short of, and when
a man does that he needs God to help him
And there have been more cases than you
can count when God has so helped the man
that he quit forever, and | could count q
| score OF them here to-day, some of them
pillars in the house OF God.
One would suppose that men would take
| warning from some of the ominous names
given TO the intoxicants, and stand of
| from
THE DEVASTATING INFLUENCE.
You have noticed for instance that some OF
the restaurants are called The Shades, "
typical OF the fact that it puts a mans
| reputation in the shade, and his morals in
the shade, and his prosperity in the shade,
and his wife and children in the shade,
and his immortal destiny in the shade.
Now, find on some of the liquor signs
| in all our cities the words 'Old Crow
nightly suggestive Ofa carcass, and the
filthy raven that swoops upon it. "Old
| Crow!' Men and women without num-
bers slain of rum but unburied, and this
evil is pecking at their glazed eyes, and
peckiDg at their bloated cheek, and peck
ing st their destroyed manhood and wo-
manhood, thrusting beak and claw into
the mortal remains of what was once glo-
riously alive but now morally dead. "Old
Grow" But alas, how many take no
warning. They make me think OF
Caesar on his way to assassination fearing
nothing, though his statute in the hall
crashed into fragments at his feet, and a
scroll containing the name of the couspir-
ators was thrust into his hands, yet walk
ing right on to meet the dagger that was
to take his life. This infatuation of strong
drink is so mighty in many q man that
though his fortunes are crashing and his
health is crashing, and his domestic inter
ests are crashing, and we hand him long
scroll containing the names OF perils that
await him; he goes on to physical and
mental and assassination. In proportion
as any style OF alcoholism is pleasant TO
your taste, and stimulating 10 your nerves,
and for time delightful to all your physi-
cal and mental constitution, is the peril
awful? Remember Jonathan and the for
hidden honey in the woods Of Bethayen.
Furthermore the gsmester's indulgence
must be putin the line Of temptations.
DELICIOUS But DESTRUCTIVE.
have crossed the ocean eight timez,
and always one Of the hest rooms has, from
morning till late at night, been given up
to gambling practices. / heard Of many
men who went on board with enough
money for European excursion who landed
without enough money to get their bag.
gage up to the hotel or railroad station
To many there is a complete fascination
games of hazard or the risking of money
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